Galileo Galilei - When the World Stood StillSpringer Science & Business Media, 23 de febr. 2006 - 221 pàgines "I, Galileo, son of the late Vincenzio Galilei, Florentine, aged seventy years ...kneeling before you Most Eminent and Reverend Lord Cardinals ...I abjure, curse, detest the aforesaid errors and heresies." The mathematician and physicist Galileo Galilei is one of the most famous scientists of all times. The story of his life and times, of his epoch-making experiments and discoveries, of his stubbornness and pride, of his patrons in the house of Medici, of his enemies and friends in their struggle for truth - all is brought vividly to life in this book. Atle Næss has written a gripping account of one of the great figures in European history.
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... church of Sant' Andrea, halfway between the university and the Medicis' local palace. Following a relatively common Tuscan tradition, the boy was given the singular form of the family name as a Christian name: Galileo. He was called ...
... church he noticed a chandelier that was swinging to and fro, and he noted that the time these small oscillations took was constant and unrelated to how far the lamp swung. This observation would, many years later, lead to the ...
... Church. Luther's Reformation in northern Europe was a seismic shockwave that demanded a new direction. The Council ... Church's ideological foundation: absolute monopoly on Christian teaching and interpretation. Every bit as important as ...
... Church and the large, fortresslike centre of learning, Collegio Romano, which occupied an entire block in the middle of Rome between the Pantheon and the main street, Via del Corso. In only a few years the Collegio Romano had become a ...
... whole Ferdinando was a good ruler. He left the Church and married a distant relative. She was Christina of Lorraine, the granddaughter of King Henri II, a woman who was to be 14 The Musician's Son A Surveyor of Inferno.
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Signs in the Sky | 23 |
A New World 51 | 50 |
Friendship and Power | 77 |
Deaths and Omens | 103 |
The Inquisitions Chambers 139 | 138 |
Eternity | 177 |
Epilogue | 197 |
Postscript | 203 |
Sources | 213 |